"You are truly talented...It's just a matter of time and unfortunately $, but things are going to really start coming together for these projects. I just know it and I'm so excited!"-Chauntal Lewis, Actor

"Thanks again for the invite. It was fun!-Cindy Baer, Director-Producer of Purgatory House

"It was a blast and your friends you assembled were all very cool and interesting and contributed with a lot of heart and talent to the reading. Just honored to have been up there with them. and I feel like your script is really funny and touching…and perhaps even more important – I've never seen it before. In other words it's original and exciting."-Joe Peracchio, Artistic Director of Tricklock Theatre Company

"I have to tell you, I can't stop reading! This is hilarious! I am laughing out loud at starbucks!"-Tarek Zohdy, Actor

A sheltered Mormon teen from Idaho follows his ambitious fiance to Hollywood. When she dumps him for a director, only the salon of friendly neighborhood transvestites can help him win her back. With their makeover and relationship advice, the pilgrim makes a desperate bid to save her soul from LA and get home virginity intact. But are his fairy godmothers helping him, or do they have their own nefarious agenda?

ELISABETH FIES is…"Kid Sis", as seen on CNN in the Eisner-winning book "Mom's Cancer" and the popular blog Kid Sis in Hollywood

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Our seventh reading was Oct 4th, 2006 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. The reading was following by a Q&A session moderated by Sharri Hefner, which allowed writer Courtney Lamb to hear immediate audience feedback to help in future drafts of the script.

Thanks to those who came to see it and participated in the Q&A, and to the excellent readers, who did a great job of bringing the comedy to life!

Friday, September 22, 2006

You are invited to a public staged reading of DEAD RONNIE, a feature comedy written by Courtney Lamb, based on her short of the same name (www.deadronnie.com).

Genre: ComedyLogline: Caroline Barker returns home to bury Ronnie, her unprincipled lowlife of a brother, and hopes his death will finally bring her back into the family fold, but Ronnie's bloodsucking friends and complicated life are harder to get rid of than she thought.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Our sixth reading was June 28th, 2006 at the Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood. The reading was following by a Q&A session, which allowed writer Heidi Hornbacher to hear immediate audience feedback to help in future drafts of the script.

Thanks to those who came to see it and participated in the Q&A, and to the actors!

Sunday, June 25, 2006

You are cordially invited to a reading ofFIXING EMMAby Heidi Hornbacher

Emma, a creative blacksheep, wants to matter to her family’s restaurant business but she seems to mess up every chance she gets. With the family’s “magic ingredient” olive oil almost gone and the Italian producer mysteriously refusing to sell them more, Emma’s stressed out sister, Caitlin, bans her from the restaurant. The only way Emma won’t be branded a loser forever is to race to Italy to get the oil and prove herself to her family, winning the heart of an impossible Italian along the way. There’s only one problem: Emma doesn’t know the first thing about olive oil…or love.

French Kiss meets In Her Shoes, Fixing Emma is a story about finding your strengths, facing your fears and building family.

The Sacred Fools Theater www.sacredfools.org660 N. Heliotrope (just south of Melrose), Hollywood 90004 Between Vermont and Normandie++ Parking FREE in lot next to the building ++

Heidi Hornbacher is a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, a former teacher of Italian and current lover of all things Italy. Her genre is comedy. Fixing Emma is Heidi's 6th script.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Our fifth reading was April 26th, 2006 at the Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood. The reading was following by a lively Q&A session, which allowed writer Sarah Vaill to hear immediate audience feedback to help in future drafts of the script.

Thanks to those who came to see it and participated in the Q&A, and to the actors!

Friday, April 21, 2006

Mexico 1910: When Pancho Villa raids the Hacienda Palomas, teenage Adela escapes the fields to join his revolution. Swept into the chaos of war and passion, she finds the courage to lead and takes on a battle of wills with Villa himself.

This Wednesday, April 26th, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.___________________________________________________

The victories and defeats in the Mexican Revolution were sung into folksongs by Pancho Villa's fighting men. Nearly 100 years later, the song La Adelita remains one of Mexico's most popular today. Remembered proudly, all the women of the Revolution's ranks have come to be known by one endearment—the ADELITAS.

“ADELITAS is an action-packed tale about loyalty, love, and learning which one is worth fighting for.” --ScriptAlley.com ___________________________________________________

A graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, Sarah Vaill is also a bilingual documentary director, a member of NALIP, and…secretly a Doublemint twin. She writes for V-Day, launched by Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, and has had a set of nine monologues commissioned for performance by WFN. Sarah's genre is female adventure stories, and ADELITAS is her 4th completed script.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

After a series of disappointments in his Minnesota hometown, a young man flees to a Caribbean island. Through the love of a peg-legged woman and the spirit guidance of an indifferent Indian chief, he returns to make Minnehaha a place worth calling home. ___________________________________________________

“Minnehaha is a unique comedy with a squishy, heart-felt center. Kind of like a Twinkie but without the nausea or guilt. But you didn’t hear that from me.”

Anonymous White House source (not Karl Rove)

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Minnehaha is a story about how one man finds his home where it always was and fights to keep it the same. Which sounds pretty boring. Until you think about it. In today’s bi-coastal culture, we can live anywhere and at times can feel downright disconnected from our roots. At the same time global corporations are hell-bent on putting the same restaurants and stores in every town so that every place is really the same, anyway. This is our world. This is Swanny's world.

Swanny doesn’t have it easy, either. The day he is born, his father takes one look at him and jettisons the delivery room. His mother is a whacked-out artist. He tries to start his own family as soon as he can, but only freaks out his girlfriend. He tries to start a company, but that fails miserably, too. So he takes off to a beautiful island where he falls in love with a peg-legged woman and her 10-year old son, and helps them get tourists back. At last, a real home. Until a dead Indian chief appears to him in a vision and tells him he’s needed back in Minnehaha. Of course he goes. Wouldn't you?

After a heart-wrenching departure, he returns, this time to a battle with his little brother over a development deal that will erase all that's unique in Minnehaha. But Swanny, ever resourceful, has a solution: build a giant loon in the town center to attract tourists and keep their town quaint. The question is: can he pull off such a cockamamie scheme? ___________________________________________________

The Sacred Fools Theater www.sacredfools.org660 N. Heliotrope (just south of Melrose), Hollywood 90004Parking in lot next to the building ____________________________________________________

About Drew Falkman:

A graduate of UCLA's Professional Screenwriting Program and an alum of UW-Madison's journalism school, writing has always been a part of Drew's life. Drew has published two books through major publishers and contributed to numerous publications over the years - online and off. Minnehaha is Drew's 4th completed screenplay.

Our third reading was March 22nd, 2006 at the Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood. The reading was following by a lively and thoughtful Q&A session, which allowed writer Lis Fies to hear immediate audience feedback to help in future drafts of the script.

Thanks to those who came to see it and participated in the Q&A, and to the actors!

When FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS cut school to surf in Baja, their dangerously naive sexuality lands them in danger. After hooking up with a van of Christian boys, one of them disappears. The raucous journey to find her takes the girls deep into the underbelly of the Skin Industry, where they must brutally battle Federales and the Mob to save their childhood friend and free all the enslaved girls.

ELISABETH FIES is…”Kid Sis”, as seen on CNN in the Eisner-winning book “Mom’s Cancer”. For dozens of industry blurbs about her writing, visit the popular blog Kid Sis in Hollywood.com

DEAD MOM'S CLUB - A dark RomCom about a clique of twenty-somethings thrust into caregiving positions. With 1 in 2 Americans diagnosed with cancer, and 1 in 3 twenty-somethings forced to move back home with their parents for financial reasons, DEAD MOM'S CLUB is a zeitgeist script that is Generation Y's BIG CHILL.

THE COMMUNE - When a punk teen is forced to spend the summer on her estranged father's commune, she learns that not only is he a dark shaman, but she's been bred to be the Midsummer sacrifice. If you miss the intelligence, craftsmanship and psychological truth of horrifying thrillers like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Shining", you'll love pooping your pants at THE COMMUNE.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Dreamy Dot leaves the comfort of a nursing home in pursuit of geriatric passion with smooth-talking Jack, but when Jack mysteriously disappears, Dot is forced to make a decision - continue living in a dream and let the world crush her remaining spirit, or face reality and find happiness in the life she left behind.